has anyone got beachballing very frequently on their 13" uMBP?
i got this annoyed me since i got my 1st time mbp software updates, and i have forgotten to unchecked the firmware 1.7 so just let it installed and now i have tried to reset the PRAM and it didnt work on my case. can we install/replace the previous firmware on my HDD?

im not sure , once i got my mbp, straight updated the EFI1.7 .

has anyone got beachballing very frequently on their 13" uMBP?

While playing game with the Thermapak, do you still feel the heat from the body of the MB or is there a significant heat reduction, especially on the palm rest next to the huge touchpad?

the reason why im asking is that, used to have beachballs alot but once i've upgraded my hdd. the problem gone so i guess the bottleneck is the hdd.

i tend to get it more often now (with latest updates) compare to last time. Mostly, it comes from Safari 4.
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Hey guys, I was wondering if you guys knew how well the new 13" MacBook Pro (the starting 4.5k one) can run FCP
And yes that's the max I can afford for a laptop right now, it's either move to a mac or get a more powerful dell albeit sans FCP

can still feel the heat... but significantly reduced.
the palm rest doesn't get that hot... it's the top left corner that gets heated up the most. and you can also feel some of the heat coming from the underneath the keyboard at the usual position you play FPS games (wasd keys). coz this area is where most of the heat is generated and where the fan and heatsink is located.
underneath the left palmrest is just the battery, whereas underneath the right palmrest is the HDD.

definitely why not? FCP doesnt come alone its under FCS ready, so after installation it takes about 60++ GBs of your HDD space so the stock 160GB wont do, its better to upgrade the internal HDD and get an external HDD as a scratch disk for your SD or HD camcorder. Though rendering the video may take up some time due to its default memory being at 2GB unless you upgrade to 8GB which is more expensive.

i guess so, was thinking to swap it back to the stock hdd.
i got it very often when browsing firefox.

Thanks for the info. Might just get one soon.. the only problem is there is no retailer selling this except for one guy in this forum..

i cant recall but i read sumwhere that the unibody macbooks (and pros) and the new ipods with mic support uses a different kind of headphone port. instead of just two 'rings' for left n right channel, they have three...the extra one for the mic. somehow this port is slightly loose than normal. when plugging in my headphone to my mbp, i also have to adjust the jack sometimes to get it to sound right. i didnt have to when i plug it into my 1st gen ipod touch (old port, no mic) and also my previous 2006 mbp.

I have a 1TB external currently in use for video capture
So the CPU and GC(is this even involved much? lol) and RAM (lets say i stick to 2gb or up it to 4gb)
is sufficient?
i read somewhere that it wont be good because of the GC
or maybe that was for motion, i'm not entirely sure

hi guys just got my MBP today at pc fair, i wanna ask .. got any freeware that look something like words and can open word file

openoffice got mac version?

why don't just use iwork or office 2008 for mac instead of open office?